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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
the trend could improve: Study findings suggest that doctors would be much more willing to prescribe that medication to Black patients—with no negative effect on white patients, Schwartzstein adds. The results suggest that a big investment to increase representation in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
edition, with a new preface by authors Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, reveals why short-term corporate success often increases the chance of long-term failure. Drawing on lessons from firms worldwide, this book provides... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in short-term consulting projects.... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
what you want to accomplish in the long term, what the goals are in the long term, and then working your way back to what efforts and what strategies you have to implement to get there. We have a long-term goal, not a short-term goal, of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage, restrict their off-balance-sheet... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
true. They are curious and read everything they can get their hands on. Family and friends are more important to them than their studies. What’s your advice to students preparing for the exam? My short-term advice concerns three Rs: read,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
short-term objectives with long-term sustainability. The probability of disaster is relatively low, but the impact can be very significant, so you definitely have to be proactive by building awareness of risk, conducting annual risk... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
should be investing in ways that align with their mission,” says the former hedge-fund investor. “In that way, they can get both good returns and further their goals.” Tiller knows that his goals of changing the food and fuel sectors aren’t View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES Ackerley cites a Pew... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers, who handle the last-mile-delivery logistics.” What are your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
2001 she came on board full-time to help run Hearon’s company, Nice Ventures. “It was going to be a short-term change,” she recalls. “I thought I’d bring in some new financing, we’d restructure, and I’d go back to working in Silicon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
short-term “fixes” to move up in the rankings rather than focusing on long-term educational quality. As tensions rose, HBS and Wharton declared in 2004 that the media rankings were “meaningless beauty contests,” and they would no longer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged buyouts, which emphasized View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
sector take time. “I told my investors that most companies we’re going to go into are going to take at least 10 years before we get an exit,” he says. Fenwick-Smith had seen the first sustainable technology boom in the mid-2000s go bust because of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The View Details